BIG 2 - 4

4 months, 16 days and 16 minutes into 2006 ! I turned the BIG 24 ! ok.. now i am going to bed !

What happened on April 16th !

1178 BC - A solar eclipse
1780 - The University of Münster in Münster, Germany was founded
1853 - The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1862 - American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in District of Columbia became law.
1912 - Harriet Quimby, first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter From a Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1972 - Apollo program: Apollo 16 launches toward the Moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2003 - Makobo Modjadji is crowned the new Rain Queen of Balobedu.
2003 - The Accession Treaty is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.

Not too bad, solar eclipse, university set up, moon missions, medical discoveries, first female pilot takes flight, famous letters penned....

Let's see who shares my birthday !

778 - King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1319 - King John II of France (d. 1364)
1823 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852)
1844 - Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1867 - Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
1889 - Charles Chaplin, English actor, writer, and film producer (d. 1977)
1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
1939 - Dusty Springfield, English singer (d. 1999)
1940 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark
1971 - Selena, American singer (d. 1995)

Hmmm... ( wikipedia has like hundreds of names but I only picked a few )
Not to bad either, Kings, Queen, Chaplin, one of my favourite singers, Selena, Wilbur Wright ! you must be kidding me ! i lOVE planes. and most of all I LURVE quotes from Anatole France !